The cartoonist is an animal rights freak who
explains his beliefs:
I don't personally believe that cruelty to any species of animal is less immoral than cruelty to our fellow humans. To me, we are all the same in our desire to be pain free, happy, and alive. I don't believe this because I am vegan, I am vegan because I believe this.
Spain has just granted
animal rights to great apes:
Ingrid Newkirk, a founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, considers Spain’s vote “a great start at breaking down the species barriers, under which humans are regarded as godlike and the rest of the animal kingdom, whether chimpanzees or clams, are treated like dirt.”
Other commentators are aghast. Scientists, for example, would like to keep using chimpanzees to study the AIDS virus, which is believed to have come from apes.
Mr. Singer responded by noting that humans are a better study model, and yet scientists don’t deliberately infect them with AIDS.
“They’d need to justify not doing that,” he said. “Why apes?”
Because apes are less valuable than humans, and the medical research could save a lot of human lives. This should be obvious.
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